In School Quotes

Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, "Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?".

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

History is the school of statesmanship.

I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.